The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey · New Jersey
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- inherent authority
- Issued
- 2021-12-29 Dec. 29, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-12-29
- End
- 2022-2023 (Standing Orders 2022-01, 2022-02, 2023-02, 2023-05)
- In force
- Dec. 29, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- litigants, counsel, jurors, entrants
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
WHEREAS... the national emergency first declared on March 13, 2020, remains in effect, as does the national public health emergency, renewed again by the federal government on October 18, 2021;... [the Court's] previously entered Standing Orders, applicable to all persons, including prospective jurors, seeking entry into and occupying this District's courthouses, which mandate the wearing of face coverings (2020-13), establish a COVID-19 protocol (2020-14), and institute temperature [screening (2020-16)]... [and require that visitors, with] limited exceptions, including jurors[,] provide proof of full vaccination or negative COVID-19 [test]...
Enforcement
Notes
Post-period; included because its recitals confirm which 2020 and 2021 standing orders (20-13, 20-14, 20-16, 21-08) remained in force through 2021 Q3 and beyond.
Retrieval noteContext; confirms continuity of the District's COVID-19 orders.